Riverside Health System announced on Wednesday the organization would start vaccinating patients 65 years old and older currently in an âactive treatmentâ plan since Jan. 1, 2020. (WYDaily/ Courtesy of Unsplash)
The Virginia Department of Health (VDH) is coordinating with local health departments and hospital systems to get residents vaccinated against the coronavirus.
But what does the vaccine distribution plan actually look like and just how effective is it?Â
Getting the vaccine
In order to get the vaccine, residents must first be eligible for the phase their local health department is currently vaccinating.
All local health departments, including the Peninsula Health District (PHD), are currently vaccinating people in Phase 1a and Phase 1b.Â
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HAMPTON ROADS, Va. â COVID-19 continues to lurk across the world, and now the new strains are creeping into the U.S. and have already found their way into Virginia.
Dr. Ryan Light, a News 3 medical expert who practices family medicine with the Tidewater Physicians Multispecialty Group, suspects Virginia could soon see more cases of the new variants.
âIt multiplies very rapidly,â Dr. Light said. âWe donât catch the cases right offhand -itâs the asymptomatic spread that we donât see.â
Now, there could be a possible second case of the COVID-19 strain first found in the U.K. The CDC is reporting a total of two cases of the emerging strain in the Commonwealth.
News 3 showed you what it was like at Fire Station 8 in Virginia Beach when Dr. Ryan Light with the Tidewater Physicians Multispecialty Group got his first dose of the COVID-19 vaccine last week.